Business: TIME CLOCK, Sep. 7, 1953

JET planes now account for more than half of U.S. plane production. U.S.
planebuilders announced last week that they had already delivered the
10,000th jet plane and the 40,000th jet engine so far built for the Air
Force.

THE $70 million fire at General Motors' Livonia transmission plant
(TIME, Aug. 24) will cost G.M. 75,000 cars this year, about 2½% of its
scheduled 1953 output. Chevrolet cannot make enough Powerglide
transmissions to supply Pontiac, and Buick cannot fill all of
Cadillac's needs for Dynaflow transmissions. But the fire will not
affect G.M.'s 1954...